Adam South

Adam South is a staff engineer working on new technologies and business models in Kennametal’s Innovation Ventures Group. Adam joined Kennametal in 2006, as an engineer in the Tooling Systems group, where he led product development projects and had engineering responsibility for shrink fit and tunable products. He is currently leading the development of NOVO Optimize, which focuses on optimizing processes by capturing best practices from real world machining operations. Adam earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, and his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a certified project management professional with the Project Management Institute, and is currently pursuing a specialization in Data Science from Coursera and Johns Hopkins University. Connect with Adam South on LinkedIn.